Dr Fei Zheng | ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Dr Fei Zheng

Research Fellow

Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Laboratories

Fei completed both his BSc and PhD at Shandong University, China, the latter supervised by Prof. Xiaotao Hao.  He focused on the preparation and characterisation of soluble Graphene Oxide (GO) nanosheets and their blends with conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications. He then spent one year of postdoctoral research in Prof. Baohua Jia's Group at the Centre for Micro-photonics, Swinburne University of Technology.  Now he is investigating the structure and working mechanism of the 2D perovskite solar cells based on the Ultrafast and Microspectroscopy Laboratories (Trevor/Ken's Group), and the collabration with Flexible Electronic Laboratory, CSIRO Clayton.

Qualifications: 
PhD, Shandong University, Jinan, China
BSc, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Centre Research Themes: 
2. Control of Excitons

Publications

Journal Articles
Zheng, F.; Angmo, D.; Hall, C. R.; Rubanov, S.; Yuan, F.; Laird, J. S.; Gao, M.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P. Brownian Tree‐Shaped Dendrites in Quasi‐2D Perovskite Films and Their Impact on Photovoltaic Performance. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2022, 2102231 DOI: 10.1002/admi.202102231. doi: 10.1002/admi.202102231
Othman, M.; Zheng, F.; Seeber, A.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Scully, A. D.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Gao, M.; Etheridge, J.; Angmo, D. Millimeter‐Sized Clusters of Triple Cation Perovskite Enables Highly Efficient and Reproducible Roll‐to‐Roll Fabricated Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32 (12), 2110700 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202110700. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202110700
Zheng, F.; Hall, C. R.; Angmo, D.; Zuo, C.; Rubanov, S.; Wen, Z.; Bradley, S. J.; Hao, X.; Gao, M.; Smith, T. A.; et al. A sandwich-like structural model revealed for quasi-2D perovskite films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2021, 9 (16), 5362-5372 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC00606A. doi: 10.1039/D1TC00606A
Zuo, C.; Scully, A. D.; Tan, W. Liang; Zheng, F.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Vak, D.; Weerasinghe, H.; McNeill, C. R.; Angmo, D.; Chesman, A. S. R.; et al. Crystallisation control of drop-cast quasi-2D/3D perovskite layers for efficient solar cells. Communications Materials 2020, 1 (1), 33 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-020-0036-z. doi: 10.1038/s43246-020-0036-z
Xu, W. - L.; Ding, C.; Niu, M. - S.; Yang, X. - Y.; Zheng, F.; Xiao, J.; Zheng, M.; Hao, X. Reduced graphene oxide assisted charge separation and serving as transport pathways in planar perovskite photodetector. Organic Electronics 2020, 81, 105663 DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2020.105663. doi: 10.1016/j.orgel.2020.105663
Xu, W. - L.; Bradley, S. J.; Xu, Y.; Zheng, F.; Hall, C. R.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Smith, T. A. Highly efficient radiative recombination in intrinsically zero-dimensional perovskite micro-crystals prepared by thermally-assisted solution-phase synthesis. RSC Advances 2020, 10 (71), 43579 - 43584 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA08890K. doi: 10.1039/D0RA08890K
Zheng, F.; Zuo, C.; Niu, M.; Zhou, C.; Bradley, S. J.; Hall, C. R.; Xu, W.; Wen, X.; Hao, X.; Gao, M.; et al. Revealing the Role of Methylammonium Chloride for Improving the Performance of 2D Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, 12 (23), 25980 - 25990 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c05714,10.1021/acsami.0c05714.s001. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c05714,10.1021/acsami.0c05714.s001
Bu, T.; Li, J.; Huang, W.; Mao, W.; Zheng, F.; Bi, P.; Hao, X.; Zhong, J.; Cheng, Y. - B.; Huang, F. Surface modification via self-assembling large cations for improved performance and modulated hysteresis of perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7 (12), 6793 - 6800 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA12284A. doi: 10.1039/C8TA12284A
Tan, B.; Raga, S. R.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Fürer, S. O.; Zheng, F.; McMeekin, D. P.; Jiang, L.; Mao, W.; Lin, X.; Wen, X.; et al. P‐Dopant: LiTFSI‐Free Spiro‐OMeTAD‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiencies Exceeding 19%(Cover: Adv. Energy Mater. 32/2019). Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9 (32) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201970123. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201970123
Tan, B.; Raga, S. R.; Chesman, A. S. R.; Fürer, S. O.; Zheng, F.; McMeekin, D. P.; Jiang, L.; Mao, W.; Lin, X.; Wen, X.; et al. LiTFSI‐Free Spiro‐OMeTAD‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiencies Exceeding 19%. Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9 (32), 1901519 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201901519. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201901519
Zheng, F.; Chen, W.; Bu, T.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Huang, F.; Cheng, Y.; Tapping, P.; Kee, T. W.; Jia, B.; Wen, X. Triggering the Passivation Effect of Potassium Doping in Mixed‐Cation Mixed‐Halide Perovskite by Light Illumination. Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9 (24), 1901016 DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201901016. doi: 10.1002/aenm.201901016
Lyu, C. - K.; Zheng, F.; B. Babu, H.; Niu, M. - S.; Feng, L.; Yang, J. - L.; Qin, W.; Hao, X. Functionalized Graphene Oxide Enables a High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cell with a Thick Active Layer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2018, 9 (21), 6238 - 6248 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02701. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02701
Lv, C. - K.; Zheng, F.; Yang, X. - Y.; Bi, P. - Q.; Niu, M. - S.; Wang, Y. - Z.; Smith, T. A.; Ghiggino, K. P.; Hao, X. Optimizing the Crystallinity and Phase Separation of PTB7:PC 71 BM Films by Modified Graphene Oxide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2018, 122 (5), 2572 - 2581 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11726. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11726
Zheng, F.; Yang, X. - Y.; Bi, P. - Q.; Niu, M. - S.; Lv, C. - K.; Feng, L.; Qin, W.; Wang, Y. - Z.; Hao, X.; Ghiggino, K. P. Poly(3-hexylthiophene) coated graphene oxide for improved performance of bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells. Organic Electronics 2017, 44, 149 - 158 DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2017.02.021. doi: 10.1016/j.orgel.2017.02.021
Zheng, F.; Yang, X. - Y.; Bi, P. - Q.; Niu, M. - S.; Lv, C. - K.; Feng, L.; Hao, X.; Ghiggino, K. P. Improved compatibility of DDAB-functionalized graphene oxide with a conjugated polymer by isocyanate treatment. RSC Advances 2017, 7 (29), 17633 - 17639 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA28652F. doi: 10.1039/C6RA28652F